Exchange Presidents

Chicago Stock Exchange has been moribund of late years; trading has been provincial. Midwest security business that obviously should have been transacted in Chicago has gone to Manhattan. This has been a slough out of which R. Arthur Wood, elected president of the exchange last week, hopes to propel his organization.

New York Produce Exchange. William Beatty, born in Montreal, grain broker in Manhattan since 1899, last week became president of the New York Produce Exchange.

New York Cotton Exchange chose Samuel T. Hubbard Jr., to be president another term. His father, Samuel T. Hubbard, was president of this exchange 1900-1902. Both represent Hubbard Brothers & Co.